CW Pairs Arrow With Supernatural on Wednesdays, Debuts First Still

Arrow, the television series based on DC Comics’ Green Arrow, will kick off The CW’s Wednesday lineup this fall, serving as a lead-in to veteran drama Supernatural on its new night. The last holdover from The CW’s predecessor The WB, Supernatural was moved from Thursday to Friday in 2010.

The announcement of the network’s 2012-2013 was accompanied by the release of the first still from Arrow, featuring Stephen Amell (Hung) as a bow-wielding Oliver Queen.

Created by Green Lantern screenwriters Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim and Fringe co-executive producer Andrew Kreisberg, the series centers on Oliver Queen, a wealthy young bad boy who, after spending five years shipwrecked on an island, returns to Starling City — changed from Star City — with a mastery of the bow and a determination to make a difference.

After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote island in the Pacific. When he returns home to Starling City, his devoted mother Moira, much-beloved sister Thea, and best friend Tommy welcome him home, but they sense Oliver has been changed by his ordeal on the island. While Oliver hides the truth about the man he’s become, he desperately wants to make amends for the actions he took as the boy he was. Most particularly, he seeks reconciliation with his former girlfriend, Laurel Lance. As Oliver reconnects with those closest to him, he secretly creates the persona of Arrow – a vigilante – to right the wrongs of his family, fight the ills of society, and restore Starling City to its former glory. By day, Oliver plays the role of a wealthy, carefree and careless philanderer he used to be – flanked by his devoted chauffeur/bodyguard, John Diggle – while carefully concealing the secret identity he turns to under cover of darkness. However, Laurel’s father, Detective Quentin Lance, is determined to arrest the vigilante operating in his city. Meanwhile, Oliver’s own mother, Moira, knows much more about the deadly shipwreck than she has let on – and is more ruthless than he could ever imagine.

Arrow will air Wednesdays this fall at 8 p.m. ET/PT, followed at 9 p.m. by Supernatural, which begins its eighth season.

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Hmm… does putting supernatural on wednesday breathe new life in it? We could actually get more viewers, and more seasons with supernatural out of the death spot.

slafaive

Three notes:

1) Supernatural off Fridays? Thank you!
2) The Arrow and Starling City? It’s too much to use Green Arrow and Star City?
3) “Flanked by his devoted chauffeur/bodyguard, John Diggle.” Without even looking at the cast, I just knew this had to be a black guy. Wouldn’t it be something to have a black superhero with a white sidekick for a change?

James MacQuarrie

He doesn’t have bad form; I wonder how he’d look if he were shooting an adult-size bow.

http://twitter.com/tomdaylight tomdaylight

Mainstream audience: “hey, it’s the lame-o guy from the Avengers!”

Orphan

Ah, you naysayers! This is going to rock, and thank god it isn’t on Fox, where if it doesn’t pull in 15 trillion viewers the first night Fox cancels it.CW will let this build, hopefully,and we can only hope it doesn’t deteriorate into which dumb bunny DC superhero is this weeks guest star.Let this build it’s own story line first.Once it is in the hands of the weekly writers and directors we can forget about Berlanti,Guggenheim,and Kriesberg.Besides it has also been saved the curse of Brannon Braga being involved.Then as long as corporate stays the heck away everything should be fine.